After Earth, Mars is the planet we all cant get enough of it seems. In terms of how readers respond to news about these celestial orbs, Id rank Jupiter third and Pluto (not even a planet!) fourth, … [+6592 chars]
A tiny meteoroid has hit the James Webb Space Telescope's main mirror just over a month before the publication of the observatory's first, real colour images. NASA said the damage from the dust-size… [+6956 chars]
Ultrafast laser technologies provide new strategies for remote sensing of atmospheric pollutants and hazardous biochemical agents due to their unique advantages of high peak power, short pulse durati… [+3197 chars]
ESA's Comet Interceptor mission to visit a pristine comet or other interstellar object just starting its journey into the inner solar system has been "adopted" this week; the study phase is complete … [+5987 chars]
The world is aware of the public health risks caused by mosquitoes, which are members of a group of almost 3,600 species of small flies within the family Culicidae. Recently, a new species of mosqu… [+1259 chars]
From A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman by Lindy Elkins-Tanton. Copyright © 2022 by Linda Elkins-Tanton. Reprinted by permission of William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. … [+7240 chars]
image: A triggerfisha member of a fish group known to be voracious predatorsswims in front of a panel previously caged for 10 weeks and recently exposed to predators in Arraial do Cabo, Brazil.view m… [+5965 chars]
While much of public attention on Yellowstone focuses on its potential to produce large supereruptions, the hazards that are much more likely to occur are smaller, violent hydrothermal explosions. Hy… [+4856 chars]
NASA astronaut Ed White is the first U.S. citizen to perform a spacewalk, which he did on June 3, 1965, only three months after Leonovs daring jaunt. The EVA, conducted during the Gemini 4 mission, s… [+1298 chars]
The Human Genome Project was an ambitious initiative to sequence every piece of human DNA. The project drew together collaborators from research institutions around the world, including MIT's Whitehe… [+8043 chars]
